The Front 1.0.10 Update: Halloween Loot Drops, Power Grid Upgrades, and a Long Fix List

A few weeks into Early Access, The Front has dropped its first sizable content patch. Version 1.0.10 brings a limited Halloween event, two new power grid components, additional character talents, and a long bug fix list that touches solo, hosted, and dedicated servers. Here is the breakdown of what changed and what is worth your attention.

Halloween Event Window

The spooky season content is gated to a fixed window: from 00:00 UTC on October 31 to 00:00 UTC on November 7. During those seven days, supply drops have a chance to roll Halloween themed loot, including Coffins, Tombstones, Pumpkins, Halloween Helmets, and Jack-o-Lanterns.

To trigger a drop, walk up to your Spacetime Beacon, hold the Use key (defaulted to F), and pick Receive Supplies. The more often you call supplies during the event, the more chances you get at the seasonal rewards.

Quick tip for impatient survivors: if you run your own server, admin commands let you skip the grind of farming materials for the Spacetime Beacon itself.

After November 7, the event tables are gone. Anything you grab during the window stays in your inventory, so it is worth burning some supply calls while you can.

New Electrical Components and Talents

The official 1.0.10 notes introduce two pieces of permanent electrical gear that anyone running a base of reasonable size will want to learn:

• Expanded Coupler: 10 input ports, 1 output port. Useful for merging several generator lines into a single feed.
• Expanded Splitter: 1 input port, 10 output ports. The mirror image, ideal for branching power out to many appliances from one source.

Alongside the new equipment, a fresh batch of character talents went live. Effects include faster crafting, lower vehicle fuel use, cheaper vehicle repairs, and reduced fall damage when your truck takes a leap it should not have taken.

Full Patch Notes for October 30, 2023

Beyond the seasonal content, the update reshapes a few balance points and clears out a backlog of bugs.

Balance Changes

• The Annihilator Sniper Rifle now deals 25 percent more damage to human NPCs and animals.
• The Annihilator is also the only firearm capable of damaging helicopters. Pistols and ARs will not scratch them anymore.
• Molotov Cocktails are now restricted to damaging wooden and stone structures.

Quality of Life

• Flying a helicopter into a no-fly zone will now trigger an on-screen warning, which is a small mercy for anyone who used to lose an aircraft to invisible boundaries.

Models, Terrain, and Visuals

• Closed a list of geometry exploits: stuck spots, crevices, broken textures, weather glitches, lighting bugs, floating resources, and model collision issues.
• Vehicle tires now visibly show damage when blown out, instead of looking factory fresh.
• Repaired inconsistent textures between the Stone Foundation 2x2 and the standard Stone Foundation.

NPCs

• Standby performance for some in-game human NPCs has been optimized, which should reduce server load in busy zones.

Bug Fixes

General Gameplay

• Followers assigned to workbenches no longer need to be reactivated after a server restart.
• Logging Trucks can now harvest from trees that were previously unresponsive.
• Territory Flags that displayed 0 Durability while still functional have been corrected.
• Long-distance cable and pipe networks can now be dismantled properly.
• Work Clothes Preservation and Combat Clothes Preservation talents now apply as described.
• Floating structures, abnormal monster spawns from Spacetime Beacons in certain spots, and disappearing crates from destroyed blimps are all fixed.
• Steel Tri-Floor collisions have been corrected.
• Scopes no longer break visually at high resolutions.
• The Toggle sprint setting now actually toggles sprint.

Servers and Solo Hosts

• Several crash conditions on dedicated servers have been patched.
• For solo and hosted games: Future Supplies now appear normally, hosts can rescue other players again, hosts no longer eat absurd amounts of food per meal, loaded ammunition survives server restarts, firearm and tool models no longer clip into each other, and crops are no longer wiped when the server reboots.

Should You Log In This Week?

If you have a base running on a dedicated server, the Halloween window is the obvious draw, but the electrical upgrades and the dedicated server crash fixes are arguably more valuable long term. Update your server, pull a few supply drops before November 7, and enjoy the slightly less buggy version of The Front.